Details

Subjects:

Kekchi language -- Grammar.
Mayan languages -- Grammar -- Early works to 1800.
Indians of Central America -- Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Language and languages.
Indians of Central America.
Mayan languages -- Grammar.
Mayan languages.
Kekchi language.
Guatemala -- Languages -- Early works to 1800.
Guatemala.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Grammars (instructional materials)
Manuscripts, Spanish.

Language:

Spanish and Kekchi.

Summary:

A 19th-century copy of a 1741 grammar for the Kekchi language with corrections suggested by Pedro Torres, an inhabitant of Coban, and added in the margins by C. Hermann Berendt.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page (f. 3r); the third character of the word Cacchi is a Parra symbol, which has been transcribed as a c in all later references.
The original from which this copy was made is in this collection as Ms. Coll. 700 Item 68 (ff. 97r-131v).
Pagination: Paper, 54; [iv, I-III], IV, [1], 2-81, [82-84], 85-96, [iv]; pagination by Berendt in ink, upper center.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines, with corrections and additions written in the margins in red.
Script: In the hand of C. Hermann Berendt.
Watermark: Department of State, US.
Binding: Late 19th-century half-leather, marbled paper.
Origin: Copied in Coban, Guatemala, in 1875 (p. IV).

Penn Provenance:

Copied from an original written in San Juan Chameleo in 1741 and held in the parochial archives of Coban, Vera Paz.
From the collection of C. Hermann Berendt, later acquired by Daniel Garrison Brinton (ex libris stamp on title page).

Cited in:

Described in Brinton, Daniel Garrison. Catalogue of the Berendt Linguistic Collection (Department of Archaeology and Paleontology, University of Pennsylvania, 1900), p. 17 (no. 69).
Described in Weeks, John M. "Karl Hermann Berendt: Colección de manuscritos lingüistícos de Centroamérica y Mesoamérica," Mesoamérica 36 (Dec. 1998), p. 632 (no. 13).
Described in Weeks, John M. The Library of Daniel Garrison Brinton (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 2002), p. 52 (no. 193).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Coll. 700, Item 69

Contributor:

Torres, Pedro.
Berendt, C. Hermann (Carl Hermann), 1817-1878, former owner.
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison), 1837-1899, former owner.

OCLC:

155930490